Books
In Incomplete Nature, Terrence Deacon puts forth his theory of emergent dynamics, and redefines fundamental concepts like work, information, reference, and self in the process. Read more here.
In Neither Ghost Nor Machine, Jeremy Sherman distills Deacon’s core insights about teleodynamic theory and presents them in an intuitive and digestible way. Read more here.
In The Symbolic Species, Terrence Deacon traces the coevolution of language and the brain and sketches the beginnings of a cognitive semiotic theory, in which icons can be combined to construct indices, and indices can be combined to construct symbols. Read more here.
Articles
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